Written questions

2,064 written questions tabled, most recent first.

17 May 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Competition

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on how many occasions she has met the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare to discuss competition in the period since her appointment; when those meetings took place; and what was discuss

16 May 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Resettlement: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to help improve access to the private rental sector for Afghans in hotels under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy and the Afghan citizens resettlem

11 May 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sewage: Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies on wastewater discharge event duration monitors of the research by Jamie Woodward and others on Acute riverine micro

11 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Surveys

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of requiring the Office for National Statistics to continue to publish covid-19 data.

11 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Westmorland General Hospital: Radiotherapy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of providing a radiotherapy unit at Westmorland General Hospital.

10 May 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sewage: Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department is taking steps to increase the number of wastewater discharge event duration monitors.

10 May 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an estimate of the number of arable fields that were sown in each of the last five years.

9 May 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sewage: Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 4 May 2023 to Question 182819, whether her Department plans to require water companies to publish the volume of sewage discharges in addition to frequency and

3 May 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Climate Change: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he will take to ensure that funding provided to the Loss and Damage Finance Facility is additional to existing climate finance commitments.

3 May 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Developing Countries: Coffee

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what support he is providing to help coffee farmers in the Global South shift to methods of production which are sustainable and resilient to climate-induced shocks.

3 May 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Coffee: Supply Chains

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to help mitigate the impact of climate change on the UK's coffee supply chains.

3 May 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Coffee: Supply Chains

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made on the potential impact of climate change on UK coffee supply chains.

26 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Food

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much and what proportion of her Department's budget was spent on food for her Department in each of the last five years; and how much and what proportion of that food was produced 

26 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of trends in the number of farmers on food prices.

26 Apr 2023 · Department for Education

Agriculture: Further Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding the Government has allocated to agricultural colleges in each of the last five years.

26 Apr 2023 · Department for Education

Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprenticeship places have been available in the agriculture, environmental and animal care sector in each of the last ten years.

26 Apr 2023 · Department for Education

Apprentices: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many high-quality apprenticeship standards were available in the agriculture, environmental and animal care sector in each of the last ten years.

26 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an estimate of the proportion of food inflation that is due to the increased cost of food packaging; and what steps her Department is taking to help reduce these costs

26 Apr 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Food Banks

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what data his Department holds on the number of people using food banks in each month since January 2022.

26 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

National Farmers Union

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she last met with the National Farmers Union.

26 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Supermarkets: Food

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has made an estimate of the quantity of food rejected each month by supermarkets on cosmetic grounds; and if she will make an assessment of the potential impact

26 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sewage: Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to reduce (a) microplastic wastewater discharges and (b) illegal wastewater discharges.

26 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sewage: Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department is planning to take steps to hold water companies to account by publishing wastewater discharge volumes.

26 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sewage: Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to hold water companies to account for repeated and illegal discharges of untreated wastewater.

24 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Tree Planting

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate her Department has made of the number of trees that were planted in England in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.

24 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Hill Farming: Subsidies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of withdrawing the basic payment scheme from uplands and less favourable areas on the economy.

19 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Sustainable Farming Incentive: Westmorland and Lonsdale

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many farms in Westmorland and Lonsdale are part of the Sustainable Farming Incentive.

19 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Farms: Westmorland and Lonsdale

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many farms in Westmorland and Lonsdale are part of Countryside Stewardship.

19 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Farms

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department holds data on the number of farm holdings in every constituency.

30 Mar 2023 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Project Gigabit: Cumbria

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what information her Department holds on the number of postcode premises in Cumbria County Council that will be classified as White under Project Gigabit's classification system by the

Source: official written-questions record.